The Commission reiterated, on Friday 10 September, that its position on the primacy of EU law was “extremely clear” and that the primacy of EU law “applies to all areas”, said spokesman Eric Mamer, when asked about the comments made by the former Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier.
On 9 September, during a meeting of the Republicans, his political party, the latter indicated that it was necessary to regain “legal sovereignty”, particularly in relation to the Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights, before specifying that he was only referring to the field of immigration, where he would propose a referendum if elected in France.
“It is clear that the management of asylum and migration is a shared competence over which the Court of Justice has jurisdiction; we need European solutions and that is what we have proposed with the Pact”, the spokesman added, recalling that the EU has also committed itself to joining the European Convention on Human Rights as an entity. (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)